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http://media.katu.com/images/1008+tshirt+660.jpgby Stephen Mayer, KATU News Published: Oct 8, 2015 at 5:51 PM PDT
GRESHAM, Ore -- You don't have to talk with eigth-grader Alan Holmes for very long to know that patriotism and support for the military are very important to him.
That's in large part due to his older brother, who joined the Marines when he was just 19 and wound up serving abroad in Iraq.
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Ever since then Alan has tried to show his support for the troops, something he says he was doing when he wore shirt with an image of the traditional soldier memorial, with a rifle, boots, and a helmet, to Dexter McCarty Middle School on Wednesday.
But he says the principal spotted the shirt and gave him an ultimatum, switch shirts or face and in-school suspension. Alan didn't back down.
full: http://www.katu.com/news/local/Suspended-for-supporting-the-troops-331488282.html
Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)T-shirts with pictures of guns.
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)While I'm sure there are folks who will claim that promoting the military is not 'promoting violence', perpetrating violence is why the military exists, and why they're not 'the Peace Corps'. Argue all they want about how and why that violence is used, it's still violence.
Igel
(35,293 posts)Used as a memorial to a dead soldier--upright, helmet over the barrel, shoes hanging from it.
The verb used about the soldiers is "stood". When next to a memorial, it rather implies that the soldiers being promoted are dead. "Standing with those who stood for us."
Mourning dead soldiers is not promoting violence.
Zero-tolerance as CYA. If they allowed that, for sure somebody would say that a shirt that did promote violence had to be accepted as well. When we remove the brain from thinking and accept slippery slopes as routine and "good critical thinking," we get the kinds of education system we deserve.
Too bad for the kids. Then again, they quickly adapt and became part of the problem.
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)It's what a military IS. A means of employing violence to achieve an end.
So saying you support the military (any military) is acknowledging the fact that you support the use of violence as a means to achieving ends.
They're not 'dead soldiers' because they were playing pattycakes. They're dead because they went to use violence, and somebody else used it on them first.
The2ndWheel
(7,947 posts)A lot of scientific research wouldn't exist without violence. The food we eat wouldn't last long without violence, be it pesticides, herbicides, etc.
QED
(2,747 posts)At least that's the thinking here. Guns, etc. are also no allowed.
beam me up scottie
(57,349 posts)Wait until Fox News gets wind of this; it's be all the atheists' fault for taking Jeebus out of the schools...
Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)beam me up scottie
(57,349 posts)It didn't, I was just adding my own.
Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)Omaha Steve
(99,570 posts)Video at link.
B Calm
(28,762 posts)of our military is way over the top.